1 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 1: This is the OTP presented by Far Bureau Health Plans. 2 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:19,599 Speaker 1: Healthcare coverage from Farm Bureau Health Plans is like an 3 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 1: extra set of pads when you need them the most. 4 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 1: They've been protecting Tennesseeans since nineteen forty seven. The Titans 5 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 1: will have to be Tennessee tough to survive the middle, 6 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: but if they can, they get extra rest. In December, 7 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:43,480 Speaker 1: with Amy Wells, Dave McGinnis, and Rhet Bryan Mike Keith 8 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: bringing you the twenty twenty one Titans schedule release, and 9 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: let's jump right to it. Here we go preseason Friday, 10 00:00:54,760 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: August thirteenth at Atlanta six o'clock Central time, kick, Saturday, 11 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:05,199 Speaker 1: August twenty first at Tampa Bay the World Champions preseason 12 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 1: game number two, six thirty kick Central time, and finally 13 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: the only home preseason game Saturday, August the twenty eighth, Chicago, 14 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: six o'clock Central time start. So again, the preseason at 15 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: Atlanta on August thirteen, at Tampa Bay on August twenty 16 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: one at Nissan Stadium for Chicago on August the twenty eighth. Again, 17 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 1: just three preseason games because there are seventeen regular season games. 18 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 1: Here's the opener. You heard it this morning on CBS 19 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: September twelfth, Arizona at Nissan Stadium at noon. The Titans 20 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 1: will go to Lumen Field in Seattle, taking on the 21 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: Seahawks Sunday, September nineteenth, three twenty five Central Time, and 22 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 1: then to round out September Indianapolis on September twenty sixth 23 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: at noon at Nissan Stadium two on the road to 24 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 1: begin October at the New York Jets noon, October third 25 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 1: at Jacksonville noon on October tenth, Monday Night Football returns 26 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: to Nisan Stadium on Monday, October the eighteenth, the opponent 27 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:23,679 Speaker 1: familiar fourth year in a row, Buffalo seven to fifteen 28 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: kickoff that would will of course be on ESPN, and 29 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: then just six days later, still at Nissan Stadium October 30 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: the twenty fourth, the two time defending AFC champion Kansas 31 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: City Chiefs for a noon gate. Rounding out October Halloween 32 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: at Indianapolis at noon, moving to November Sunday Night Football 33 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:51,799 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles so Fi Stadium, as the Titans will 34 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:56,639 Speaker 1: take on the Rams November seventh, NBC seven twenty pm. 35 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:02,639 Speaker 1: Sunday November fourteenth, New New Orleans at noon at Nissan Stadium, 36 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: followed by another home game Sunday, November twenty first Houston 37 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: at noon, and then three days after Thanksgiving at New 38 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 1: England November twenty eighth at noon. The Titans by week 39 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 1: does not come until week thirteen, which is December the fifth. 40 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:22,920 Speaker 1: December the twelfth, the Titans are at home for a 41 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 1: noon start with Jacksonville December nineteenth, at Pittsburgh for a 42 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:32,800 Speaker 1: noon start, and then Thursday Night football at Nissan Stadium Thursday, 43 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 1: December twenty third. San Francisco is the opponent at seven 44 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 1: twenty home on January second for Miami at noon, and 45 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: the Titans will end the regular season again January the 46 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 1: ninth at Houston. That's a noon kickoff, so to run 47 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: through it quickly one more time. Arizona September twelfth noon 48 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 1: at home at Seattle September nineteenth, three twenty five kick 49 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: Indianapolis noon on September the twenty sixth at New York Jets. 50 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 1: October third noon at Jacksonville noon, October tenth, Monday Night 51 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: Football October eighteenth, Nissan Stadium, Buffalo. The opponent Kansas City 52 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 1: at Nissan Stadium noon. October twenty fourth at Indianapolis Halloween 53 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 1: at noon at the Los Angeles Rams, Sunday night football 54 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 1: on November seventh, back to back home games November fourteenth, noon, 55 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: New Orleans, November twenty first, Houston noon at New England 56 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:36,160 Speaker 1: November twenty eighth, noon, bye week December fifth, December twelfth, 57 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 1: Jacksonville Nissan Stadium at noon, at Pittsburgh December nineteenth at noon, 58 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:46,039 Speaker 1: Thursday night football at Nissan Stadium December twenty third, seven 59 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: twenty kick home from Miami January second at noon, and 60 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: the Titans will end the regular season again January the 61 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: ninth at Houston. That's a noon kickoff. Coach Mac once 62 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:00,280 Speaker 1: a head coach, always a head coach. When you're looking 63 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,279 Speaker 1: at this schedule, what are your immediate first reactions? You know, 64 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:05,279 Speaker 1: the first thing that always looked at, you know clearly, 65 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:07,840 Speaker 1: is when when the bye date is. I've been coaching 66 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:10,040 Speaker 1: a long time in this league. I've had the bye 67 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 1: as deep as this one is for us this year, 68 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:14,480 Speaker 1: I've had the buy in the first week of the season. 69 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:16,840 Speaker 1: So really, when the bye, when the bye is, you 70 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: work your schedule around it, you get your team ready 71 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: for that. It's not an issue unless you make an 72 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 1: issue of it. Mike Vrabel will not make an issue 73 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:26,600 Speaker 1: of this. He will be able to pace his football 74 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: team to that December the fifth. By the next thing 75 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:31,919 Speaker 1: I always look at is how many back to backs 76 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: do I have on the road? How many backs to 77 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:37,280 Speaker 1: back do I have at home? This schedule sets up 78 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: You've got two game back to backs on the road. 79 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: You don't have any three game swings either on the 80 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: road or at home. So it's a pretty balanced even schedule. 81 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:47,479 Speaker 1: The next thing I would look at, Amy is one 82 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: are my divisional games. We jump off early in the 83 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: first quarter against Indy, next into the second quarter against Jacksonville. 84 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 1: Then you've got into You're done with Indy at the 85 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:58,840 Speaker 1: end of October, all right, so you you you pretty 86 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: much have to make Hay in your division. Then your 87 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 1: next division game is a third week in November against Houston, 88 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: and then again you end up with Houston at the 89 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: end of the year. That's what I look at to 90 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: begin with. But to me, a travel schedule, as far 91 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 1: as how many are strong in a row, it's very balanced. 92 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: Rat What about you, what are your immediate reactions to 93 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:20,039 Speaker 1: this schedule? Kind of pick it back in off of 94 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:22,479 Speaker 1: what Max said, I think it's interesting that in no 95 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: given month of the season, October is the only one 96 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:29,720 Speaker 1: where there's more than one AFC South Division game. We've 97 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 1: had seasons passed and schedules passed where it had been 98 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:35,600 Speaker 1: favorable for that you had to play you know, Indy 99 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 1: twice in three weeks or whatever. I like that three 100 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 1: primetime games immediately sticks out, one of those being at 101 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 1: the new Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles on Sunday night football, 102 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 1: but also creatures of habit we all are, and thirteen 103 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: out of the sixteen games are noon kicks. I love 104 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 1: that part because barring a flex there's a chance to 105 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: set rhythm there in terms of what you do on 106 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 1: a re geter week and a regular you know, all 107 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: of that stuff. You know, Coach Vabel's really good at 108 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 1: doing off schedule things like that, but that you've got 109 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: some structure there that's pretty much the same. And having 110 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 1: those primetime games spaced out the way they are right 111 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: to your point, you're able to establish a rhythm and 112 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 1: then have some one off moments as opposed to consistently 113 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: feeling like you're an upheaval, right nex. Yeah, and what 114 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: that helps you do as a coach, you can you 115 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: can now you can plan, you can plan your practice schedule, 116 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 1: and you can also plan for your people that are 117 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: going to get prepared early for the opponents on these 118 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 1: all schedule games. They can start there, they can start 119 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: their work. So now you're able to plan procedurally how 120 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 1: you're going to work through it. And I agree with you, 121 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: it's it's spaced out enough with your all schedule games 122 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: and then with your on schedule games that he will 123 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: have it. He's always really good at the all schedule stuff, 124 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 1: really proven last year with the things we went through 125 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 1: with COVID. But this year they're they're spaced out enough 126 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 1: that he will have a good plan going into these games. 127 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 1: I also the difference in travel from last year because 128 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: really got fortunate you opened the latest of the Monday 129 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 1: night games in Denver in Week one and then you 130 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: didn't go anywhere further west than Houston after that year. 131 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: Fourteen eight hundred and thirty four miles round trip this 132 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: season four thousand more miles than just a year ago, 133 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: because you have the trip to la because you have 134 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:24,280 Speaker 1: the trip to Seattle to loom And Field. And I 135 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: love the fact that the Titans are starting at home 136 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: first time since twenty seventeen. Mike Vrabel two and one 137 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 1: opening weekend, and he's eight and one in games with 138 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: ten or more days to prepare for in his coaching career. 139 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 1: So I love starting out at home. You want to 140 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: win those home games, win those division games. See if 141 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:43,080 Speaker 1: you can go five hundred better on the road, and 142 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:45,839 Speaker 1: that's how you get into the playoffs. So in September 143 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:50,320 Speaker 1: the twelfth, Arizona, the nineteenth at Seattle, Indianapolis on the 144 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:53,839 Speaker 1: twenty sixth, October at the New York Jets on the third, 145 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 1: at Jacksonville on the tenth, Buffalo on Monday Night Football 146 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 1: on the eighteenth, Kansas City on October twenty four, at 147 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 1: Indianapolis on October the thirty first, November at Los Angeles 148 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:09,679 Speaker 1: Ram Sunday Night Football November seventh, New Orleans November fourteenth, 149 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 1: Houston November twenty first, at New England November twenty eighth. 150 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 1: Four games in November December bye week, and then Jacksonville 151 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 1: on the twelfth of December, at Pittsburgh on the nineteenth, 152 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 1: and then Thursday Night Football with San Francisco. So not 153 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 1: only do you get a bye at the start of 154 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 1: that month, Coach Mac, you're also getting the mini buy 155 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 1: over the Christmas weekend to take into your final two games. 156 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:41,600 Speaker 1: The Titans have unprecedented rest in December, but they've got 157 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 1: to make it through a lot to get there to 158 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 1: really be able to utilize. Oh, that's a very valid point, 159 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 1: and that's very real. And believe me, Mike Vrabel has 160 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: looked at this and he will understand, you know, how 161 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:56,319 Speaker 1: to be able to load manage his team to this point. 162 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 1: He's a master at load managing anyway, and different players 163 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 1: have different load managements during the season practice wise, when 164 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:05,320 Speaker 1: they're going to go, when they're going to go fast, 165 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: when they're going to slow down a little bit. But 166 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:09,839 Speaker 1: this does give him a chance now to look at 167 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 1: it and say, within this span from December fifth to 168 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 1: December twenty three, I've got a chance to give my 169 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 1: guys a little bit extra leg time. Coach Mack said 170 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:24,200 Speaker 1: it though Amy done with Indianapolis. Both games with Indianapolis 171 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 1: done within the first eight September twenty sixth that Nissan 172 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: Stadium and then at Lucas Oil Stadium on Halloween, both 173 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 1: noons starts. The two favorites in the AFC South will 174 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: not meet again in November, December or January, unless there's 175 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 1: a playoff rebatch. Well, and from where you're standing, that's 176 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,200 Speaker 1: got to be a bit of a gift because you 177 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:50,319 Speaker 1: have a pretty good idea of where you're measuring up. 178 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 1: If the Titans and the Colts are indeed the two 179 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 1: favorite teams in the South, you kind of have an 180 00:10:56,559 --> 00:10:59,319 Speaker 1: idea of where you stand within the division. In October, 181 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 1: all of this sudden so you can kind of gauge 182 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 1: what needs to happen for your team, which is great news. 183 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 1: And then to the point about having a late buy 184 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 1: and that late mini buy as well, you get a 185 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,200 Speaker 1: chance to rest up before a final push that hopefully 186 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: leads you into the playoffs. So there are some built 187 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 1: in benchmarks that kind of give you places to evaluate 188 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: your team and where you're at and what adjustments you 189 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 1: need to make to keep going. Yeah, to Amy's point too, 190 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 1: Indianapolis has the coaching staff that we know, and you 191 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 1: know they're gonna have a new quarterback, but they got 192 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 1: a coaching staff and a system offensively and defensively that 193 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 1: the Titans are very familiar with. These other two teams 194 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: in our division, their new staffs, their new systems, there 195 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: are a lot of new people. This gives you more 196 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:43,680 Speaker 1: of a chance because they are later on down in 197 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 1: the schedule to be able to study what they're going 198 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:50,440 Speaker 1: to do in the present day. Kickoff weekend begins on Thursday, 199 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:54,000 Speaker 1: September night. The Dallas Cowboys will play at Tampa Bay 200 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 1: the Thursday night opener. The end of the regular season 201 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 1: is exactly four months later, January the ninth, when the 202 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 1: Titans will play at Houston to wrap up after playing 203 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 1: Miami on January second. So with the eighteen week schedule 204 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,720 Speaker 1: now seventeen games in eighteen weeks, the regular season goes 205 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: one week further into January the Pro Bowl February six 206 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: that Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, and then you've got 207 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty six Sunday February thirteenth, Sofi Stadium in 208 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. A great way for the Rams to cap 209 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:33,560 Speaker 1: off their first year. We've got a lot more to 210 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 1: come stay with us, Dave McGinnis. With an extra week 211 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 1: being added to the season, we have divided the schedule 212 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 1: into thirds. Coaches in the league always divided it before 213 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:49,239 Speaker 1: into quarters. Based on the sixteen games, will they rethink 214 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 1: it now and go in different pods based on the 215 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 1: fact that there is not only an extra game, but 216 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 1: an extra week. I think they'll rethink it a little 217 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,720 Speaker 1: bit depending on how their schedule falls. And again we 218 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 1: talked in the first segment about three game stretches either 219 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 1: at home or away, two game stretches, where those things fall, 220 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: and also where you're altered schedule games fall, and that's 221 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 1: where that's where I know myself as a head coach, 222 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: I would always try to divide it. You're right, it 223 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 1: was always convenient to divide it into quarters. Now I 224 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 1: think they will look at it just a little bit differently. 225 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 1: But at the same time, the thing that's important to 226 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 1: remember is is the first and foremost thing that a 227 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 1: head coach in the National Football League wants to do, 228 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:29,080 Speaker 1: regardless of how his schedule is set, and regardless of 229 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 1: the schedule that he's been given, he wants to take 230 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 1: his teams into any of these contests as healthy as possible. 231 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:37,559 Speaker 1: That will depend a lot on how they divide this. 232 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:41,079 Speaker 1: Eighteen weeks up, just gotten the schedules for the Titans 233 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 1: AFC South opponents. Looking at Indianapolis. They will open with 234 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: home games back to back against Seattle and Los Angeles, 235 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: so the Titans have to take the two West coast trips. 236 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 1: Tennessee goes to Seattle on the nineteenth of September, they 237 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 1: go to Los Angeles and November seventh for Sunday Night football, 238 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 1: which means Tennessee will probably get back to Nashville Monday 239 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 1: morning four to five am. It's a tough trip. Colts 240 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: don't have to deal with that. Home for Seattle, home 241 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:14,960 Speaker 1: for Los Angeles the first two weeks. Their first road 242 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 1: trip is at Nissan Stadium on September the twenty sixth. 243 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 1: But the Colts actually have three in a row on 244 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 1: the road. They have Tennessee on September twenty sixth, at 245 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 1: Miami on October third, and then Monday Night football at 246 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 1: Baltimore on October the eleventh, So September twenty sixth, October third, 247 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: October the eleventh, three in a row on the road. 248 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 1: They play, of course, the Titans again at Lucas Oil 249 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 1: Stadium on Halloween, October the thirty first, and then thereby 250 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 1: doesn't come until week fourteen of the season. Yikes, that's 251 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 1: a little late, but maybe they will be rested and 252 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:57,960 Speaker 1: recovered and ready for a playoff push. We hope not. 253 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 1: We'll see where that goes. Looking looking at Jacksonville, they 254 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 1: will open at Houston and then home for Denver and 255 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 1: Arizona before Thursday Night football at Cincinnati, so they will 256 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: have a mini bye before they come to Tennessee on 257 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 1: October the tenth. They will leave Nashville and we'll head 258 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 1: for London where they will play the Dolphins on October 259 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:23,000 Speaker 1: the seventeenth. Because they play in London on October seventeenth, 260 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 1: their bye comes in week number seven, so that is 261 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 1: a look at them. For the Houston Texans, obviously we 262 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 1: just mentioned they play Jacksonville in week one at home. 263 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 1: Then they go to Cleveland, home for Carolina, at Buffalo, 264 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 1: home for New England, at Indianapolis, at Arizona home for 265 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. That's the Rams at Miami, then a bye 266 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: before they play Tennessee the first time. They will play 267 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 1: at San Francisco on January the second, before coming home 268 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 1: to take on Tennessee on January ninth to end the 269 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: regular season. So interesting scheduling for the Colts. Two at home, 270 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 1: two West Coast teams at home, and then three on 271 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 1: the road. And I guess the latest possible buy Coach 272 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 1: Mac yeah, and that's the ying and the yang of schedules. 273 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: I mean, you're going to get some pluses for you, 274 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 1: and their pluses are they get two long West Coast 275 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 1: trips at home. But then the issue that they're going 276 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 1: to have to face is is, as you said, towards 277 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 1: the back end of it, then it's not as favorable. 278 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: So there's push pull on everybody's schedule. Everybody looks at it, 279 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 1: and I'm going to reiterate it again. All of these 280 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 1: head coaches, they are going to adjust their approach and 281 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: their teams to what their schedule is. You will not 282 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 1: ever hear one coach say anything negative about a schedule, 283 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 1: because you have to get ready for your schedule, and 284 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 1: that's what they'll all do. The thing that really stands 285 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:49,360 Speaker 1: out to me in the Colts schedule specifically is what 286 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 1: they have going on before they play the Tennessee Titans. 287 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: It's interesting that the Titans are their first road game. 288 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: It's also interesting that they are playing the forty nine 289 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 1: ers a West coast game, giving i'm a late return 290 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 1: home before they play the Titans the second time. Both 291 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:06,919 Speaker 1: are interesting things that in a game of inches and 292 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:11,160 Speaker 1: small competitive advantages, you look for whatever you got, all right, Coachmack, 293 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: listen to this. Here are the opponents that the teams 294 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 1: play the week before they play Tennessee. So before Seattle 295 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 1: host Tennessee, they open in Week one at Indianapolis. Before 296 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:29,120 Speaker 1: Indianapolis travels to Tennessee, they play the Rams at home. 297 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:34,160 Speaker 1: Before the Jets host the Titans, they play at Denver. 298 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:38,440 Speaker 1: Jacksonville will have played Thursday Night Football, so they will 299 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 1: have a bit of a mini buy before they travel 300 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:45,560 Speaker 1: to Tennessee. Buffalo will visit Kansas City on Sunday Night 301 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 1: Football on October tenth, and then they'll come to Nashville 302 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 1: for the Monday Night Football game on October the eighteenth. 303 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 1: Before Kansas City comes to Nashville on October twenty fourth, 304 00:17:55,880 --> 00:18:00,359 Speaker 1: they will have played Washington on October the seventeenth. Amy 305 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:05,160 Speaker 1: just mentioned it. Indianapolis plays San Francisco on Sunday Night 306 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 1: Football in Week seven, the week before they host the Titans. 307 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:12,399 Speaker 1: The week before the Rams host the Titans on Monday 308 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:16,360 Speaker 1: Night Football, they've got a noon game at Houston. New 309 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:20,239 Speaker 1: Orleans will host Atlanta in Week nine before playing the 310 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: Titans on November fourteenth. We'll say again, Houston has a 311 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:27,400 Speaker 1: bye before their first meeting with the Titans. New England 312 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:32,920 Speaker 1: will have played Thursday Night Football against Atlanta on November eighteenth, 313 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 1: so they'll have a mini bye before they take on 314 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:39,000 Speaker 1: Tennessee on November twenty eighth. Jacksonville will be coming to 315 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 1: Nashville a week after they had been at Los Angeles 316 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,880 Speaker 1: taking on the Rams. Pittsburgh will play Thursday Night Football 317 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 1: at Minnesota on December ninth in Week fourteen before hosting 318 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 1: Tennessee in Week fifteen, and so that means a mini 319 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 1: bye for the Steelers. The forty nine Ers will host 320 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 1: the Falcon at three oh five on December nineteenth, so 321 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:05,159 Speaker 1: they will be at home, and then they'll have to 322 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 1: fly across the country a couple days later to play 323 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football. We wondered with the forty nine ers schedule, 324 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: would they be in a position that maybe they will 325 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 1: have come somewhere and played Chicago or somewhere closer to 326 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 1: Nashville and then they could just pop in. Nope, they're 327 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 1: at home. They'll travel all the way across the country 328 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,399 Speaker 1: probably on Tuesday night, maybe on Wednesday morning for the 329 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:32,440 Speaker 1: Thursday game. Miami will play Monday Night Football in New 330 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:36,160 Speaker 1: Orleans on week sixteen, so they will have one less 331 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 1: day to prepare and they will have traveled the week before, 332 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:42,959 Speaker 1: and then Houston plays at San Francisco at three oh 333 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 1: five and week seventeen before they host the type. Yeah, 334 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 1: the important thing when you look at these things and 335 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: you break it down like this, which again everybody does, 336 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,120 Speaker 1: and you look at it, it's depending on the health 337 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 1: of the football team that you're playing, and it depends 338 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: on your team's health when you're looking at it. Those 339 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 1: many buys that you talked about some early week six 340 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 1: Houston has a full buy before they play US in 341 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:06,479 Speaker 1: week eleven. A lot of it depends on what the 342 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 1: health of your opponent is at the time, whether it's 343 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:12,840 Speaker 1: advantage them or whether if they're on a roll, then 344 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 1: it's a little bit of a disadvantage, you know, to 345 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 1: be able to stop and had to start again. And 346 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 1: then the other thing that you look at too, anybody 347 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 1: coming off of a Thursday night game and you call 348 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 1: them mini buys, they really are and they're really double 349 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:28,880 Speaker 1: mini buys if they win the games, absolutely, because then 350 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:31,880 Speaker 1: everything is feeling good, your mojo is good, you get 351 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: a little bit of extra time off. So all of 352 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 1: those things when you look at them at the time 353 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,159 Speaker 1: that you play them, depending on where the season has fallen, 354 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 1: there's something to be considered. So I was looking at 355 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 1: the strength of schedule in this and it reported I 356 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 1: think the Titans had the thirteenth toughest schedule in the 357 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one season. The Titans and the Texans are 358 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 1: two of six teams in the NFL that have eight 359 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 1: different opponents who are in the playoffs in twenty twenty. 360 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 1: And then the other two members of the AFC South, 361 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:03,720 Speaker 1: the Colts and the Jaguars, are two of about eight 362 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 1: or nine teams that had seven opponents on this year's 363 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 1: schedule that we're in the twenty twenty playoffs. So the 364 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: AFC South certainly has a tough road to home no 365 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:18,360 Speaker 1: matter who you're looking at. Coach Mike Rabol joins us 366 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:22,400 Speaker 1: on schedule release date in the National Football League. Coach, 367 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 1: thanks so much for the time, Hey, buddy, of course, 368 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 1: how are you. We're excited always. This is a big 369 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 1: deal for those of us that love the NFL as 370 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:34,440 Speaker 1: we see when we're gonna play and how it's going 371 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 1: to unfold for you as you get the schedule and 372 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,480 Speaker 1: start to review it. What do you turn your eyes 373 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 1: to most quickly and what do you go through? Mike, 374 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:47,400 Speaker 1: You know that, you know we have to focus on 375 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:50,560 Speaker 1: you know, every week is so important in this league. 376 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 1: I understood that as a player. I understand that, especially 377 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:57,119 Speaker 1: as a coach. But I think probably just the excitement 378 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:01,879 Speaker 1: of having nine home football games and nine opportunities to 379 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 1: play great in front of our fans, and we want 380 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: to We want to play hard, and we want to 381 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 1: play well for for these fans that we have and 382 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 1: hopefully continue to add more fans and make these people 383 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:18,440 Speaker 1: around here truly appreciate the product that we're putting out 384 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,400 Speaker 1: there with our effort and our finish and our toughness. 385 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:25,200 Speaker 1: And you know, that's that's what I'm really excited about, coach. 386 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 1: Here on Titans Radio, we of course have gone through 387 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 1: the Titans schedule, but we've also gone through some other 388 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:34,239 Speaker 1: teams schedules, mainly in the AFC South. How much as 389 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:36,680 Speaker 1: a coach do you, or do you at all pay 390 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 1: attention to the schedules of other teams and what they're 391 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,640 Speaker 1: going to be dealing with as they prepare to face 392 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,639 Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. Not a whole lot, amy, you know, 393 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,199 Speaker 1: It all depends on how you prepare and play. And 394 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,119 Speaker 1: you know, I don't think anybody could have looked at 395 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 1: that schedule last year, uh, using the Buffalo game for example, 396 00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 1: the amount of time that we spent away, and you know, 397 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 1: just that's the whole logistics behind getting ready for that game. 398 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,359 Speaker 1: And we just have to prepare the best that we 399 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,560 Speaker 1: can and go out there and playing, whether that's in 400 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 1: a short week and somebody else has an extra day 401 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,880 Speaker 1: or you know, there's there's so many variables that come 402 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: into a long season and that we always have to 403 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,680 Speaker 1: be prepared for anything that could come up. And I'm 404 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 1: confident that our players and our staff will be ready. Coach, 405 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:27,480 Speaker 1: it's great talking to you, by the way, I haven't 406 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 1: talked to you in quite a while. Anybody, how you've been, 407 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 1: I'm doing great. I'm doing great. Looking forward to seeing 408 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,679 Speaker 1: you again on the field and watching you, watching you 409 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 1: work with all these guys. I miss being up there too, anyway. 410 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 1: You know, the question that's been asked to me as 411 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: a former head coach is how do you handle the 412 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:47,200 Speaker 1: altered schedules? And you've always been very adept at handling 413 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,919 Speaker 1: these altered schedules. Can you give the listeners just a 414 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:53,400 Speaker 1: little insight into what goes into your thought process with 415 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:56,480 Speaker 1: your primetime games, because you've got games that are going 416 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 1: to get in rhythm with the noon games. But it always, 417 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 1: to me, always wanted to be sure that at the 418 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,159 Speaker 1: point in time that these all schedule games came, I 419 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: had a good plan for it. Kind of fill the 420 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:09,680 Speaker 1: listeners in on that, would you, Yeah, I appreciate that, coach. I, Um, 421 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:12,640 Speaker 1: you know, the first thing that that that we all 422 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 1: know is that you could have an altered schedule by 423 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 1: a noon Sunday to a noon Sunday based on the 424 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:23,119 Speaker 1: health of your football team. Right Let's say you know 425 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,560 Speaker 1: you don't have them any guys available and for practice, 426 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 1: and you've got to alter and you've got to use 427 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:32,200 Speaker 1: a jog through schedule, jog through tempo. But we do 428 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,120 Speaker 1: feel like we've got a pretty cool schedule on these 429 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 1: short weeks. Let's say the Sunday turnaround to Thursday, where 430 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 1: we'll bring them in. We try to give him some sleep. 431 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,879 Speaker 1: We think that rest is really critical sleep and rest 432 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 1: is critical recovery. The best that we can get them 433 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 1: in a training room, get him moving around. But we'll 434 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:55,639 Speaker 1: start that preparation immediately following that game at four in 435 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,840 Speaker 1: the afternoon, and you know that that's that's gonna be. 436 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,440 Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna we're gonna move on from from 437 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: the past game. The coaches will already have been prepared. 438 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 1: You know, you don't do a whole lot. You don't 439 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,879 Speaker 1: do a whole lot new hopefully there's a lot of carryover, 440 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: but but you're prepared for those Thursday games all the 441 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 1: way up until you know, kickoff, like like you are 442 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,320 Speaker 1: every week, you know, and the preparation stops, you know 443 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:22,119 Speaker 1: when when when at kickoff? And so um, it's about 444 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:23,840 Speaker 1: at that point in time on those short weeks, it's 445 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,160 Speaker 1: about the recovery and finding ways to get these guys 446 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,360 Speaker 1: as much sleep as you can, but also get them 447 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 1: in and and get get to work in that you 448 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:35,640 Speaker 1: need in the walkthroughs and getting their body moving around. Coach, 449 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: it's rett Ryan look forward to talking to you on 450 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 1: the Rabel Show here in about four months. You got 451 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:44,720 Speaker 1: the whole gang, Yes, sir, I know, you know we 452 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,120 Speaker 1: got about four months that we do your coaches shows here. 453 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 1: But you basically have one hundred and twenty three days 454 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:52,640 Speaker 1: to get ready for the Arizona Cardinals in Week one 455 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 1: at home at Nissan Stadium. And I know that that's 456 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 1: basically where the schedule starts for you as a coach, 457 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,199 Speaker 1: but you've always said that you're just kind of a 458 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 1: teacher and not really a coach until those guys get 459 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:06,359 Speaker 1: into buildings. So and we got the regular season schedule 460 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 1: release tonight. Do you share in the excitement like the 461 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 1: fans do, knowing that that's around the corner, and also 462 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 1: on the heels of that, you've got your rookie mini 463 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:15,760 Speaker 1: camp this weekend where you can see some young guys 464 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:17,520 Speaker 1: come in and work them. You know, I think that 465 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: the short term focus rent and it's great to have 466 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:22,399 Speaker 1: you on here, man, I think we should have just 467 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 1: done this with me, you and Coach Mack and you know, 468 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,119 Speaker 1: Amy and Mike could have gone to dinner or happy 469 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 1: hour or whatever, but that would have been great perfect. 470 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:33,679 Speaker 1: I just think that it's such a short term focus 471 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 1: and what we have to do, like my focus now is, man, 472 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 1: let's have a great squad meeting with these guys tomorrow. 473 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:43,280 Speaker 1: Let's get these guys off and finished the week off strong, 474 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 1: continue to build momentum those that are here in our building, 475 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:50,440 Speaker 1: have a great workout, and then let's welcome these rookies in. 476 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,720 Speaker 1: Let's let's get these guys going, Let's get them up 477 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 1: to speed as quickly as possible, and then let's let's 478 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,399 Speaker 1: focus and moving on to phase two on Monday and 479 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: having some field work, and then it's the in person 480 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,960 Speaker 1: meetings and OTAs, and that's where my focus is in 481 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 1: trying to just continue to build and develop. And then 482 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,040 Speaker 1: if you do all those things correctly and positively, you know, 483 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,440 Speaker 1: I think you're gonna be in a really good position 484 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 1: when the season starts. Mike, look forward to seeing you 485 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,359 Speaker 1: this weekend at Rookie Minicamp. Thanks so much for taking 486 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,679 Speaker 1: the time. Okay, guys, it's always great to be on. 487 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 1: I appreciate it. And again, just extremely excited. You know, 488 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,360 Speaker 1: we get that extra home game for our fans and 489 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:33,879 Speaker 1: and we're going to prepare to play and represent them well. Away. Coach, 490 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 1: Thank coach, Thank you, guys. Mike vrabel He and the 491 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:43,560 Speaker 1: Titans will open the regular season September twelfth against Arizona 492 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 1: at Nissan Stadium. Will it top the hottest game ever 493 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,159 Speaker 1: in Nissan Stadium history that occurred two years ago in 494 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:55,439 Speaker 1: September against Indianapolis ninety three degree temperature, heat index ninety eight. 495 00:27:56,040 --> 00:28:00,760 Speaker 1: The last time against Arizona at Nissan Stadium, Ryan Fitzpatrick 496 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,480 Speaker 1: was quarterbacking the Titans, and he threw two touchdown passes 497 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 1: to Heidelberg's own Michael Preston, who finished his NFL career 498 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 1: with ten catches. Those were his only two touchdowns. Titans 499 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 1: scores seventeen in the final moments to force overtime. Titans, however, 500 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,400 Speaker 1: lost in overtime thirty seven to thirty four, as fits 501 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:22,639 Speaker 1: through an interception that was also the last time that 502 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:29,960 Speaker 1: Tennessee successfully recovered and on sidekick Baronas approaches, he heads 503 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,080 Speaker 1: to the right, goes high up in the air, the 504 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,600 Speaker 1: ball is fielded by Fitzjernals calls out and I think 505 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 1: the Titans do have it. They do, Number thirty nine, 506 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 1: Damian Stafford, who comes up with it. It's a strange day, Rent, 507 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 1: Damian Stafford from Nebraska. A big safety comes up on 508 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:52,520 Speaker 1: the hands team. Nice stuff, Aby, that was your first year. 509 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 1: That was my first year as a Tennessee Titan. So 510 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 1: maybe I'm the problem with the on sidekick thing. Maybe 511 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 1: it's me. September nineteenth at Seattle three, twenty five Central 512 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 1: time kickoff. That's week two. Last time at Seattle, also 513 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:12,320 Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. Titans fell twenty to thirteen, but they had 514 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:16,000 Speaker 1: an amazing and memorable touchdown at the end of the 515 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:21,520 Speaker 1: first half. Snap set kick is bumbled, Marigoes drop the 516 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,959 Speaker 1: snap at the last minute, ball gets away. It's been 517 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 1: picked up by McCarty. Twenty five thirty forty fifty forty 518 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 1: thirty twenty ten five and zone touchdown Titans. How about that? 519 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 1: Titans lose that one narrowly, largely because of a Ryan 520 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:48,600 Speaker 1: fitz Patrick interception. Old pick picks Patrick. Yes, so, Coach Mack. 521 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 1: It's now known as Looming Field in Seattle. Is it 522 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,000 Speaker 1: the toughest place to play in the NFL? Yeah, I 523 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 1: don't care what name it has. That place is unique, 524 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 1: it really is. Of course. I've got I've taken a 525 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 1: lot of teams in there as a coach, you knows, 526 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,520 Speaker 1: as an opponent, you know, being in the NFC West 527 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 1: and then other places that I've been, that place is different. 528 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 1: I mean, it's outdoors, but it's cann of lever it 529 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 1: up at the top and the noise comes right straight 530 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,560 Speaker 1: down on top of you, and they fill every seat. 531 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 1: Every seat will be filled when we go there. It's 532 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,360 Speaker 1: a great environment. You know, it's a great environment to 533 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 1: go into as a visiting team, and you like going 534 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,200 Speaker 1: there in week two. I really like going there in 535 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,160 Speaker 1: week two. I like going there at any time. Look, 536 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,440 Speaker 1: they've got a guy that won the lottery and so 537 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,520 Speaker 1: he was able to buy a seat right by where 538 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 1: the opposing team comes out. He'll be there again with 539 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:37,920 Speaker 1: all the signs. He knows everything about everybody, every coach's background, 540 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: every player's background, and he's giving you the business from 541 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,280 Speaker 1: the time you walk out until the time you go 542 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 1: back in. It's a great, great environment. I love playing 543 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 1: up there, I really did. And it gets your juices 544 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:54,360 Speaker 1: flowing pretty early. But it's a unique environment. It's jam packed. 545 00:30:54,600 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 1: They are really really vociferous. That's a good word. Vociferous fans. Wow. 546 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 1: September twenty sixth, Indianapolis Nissan Stadium at noon. New Coats 547 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 1: quarterback Carson Wentz will play his second game at Nisan Stadium. 548 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:13,040 Speaker 1: Three years ago for Philadelphia, he threw for three forty eight, 549 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 1: but he lost in overtime. Here comes pressure. Wentz hit 550 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:26,720 Speaker 1: fumble recovered by the Titan Pladry with the the recovery. 551 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,520 Speaker 1: All right, coach Mac, how do you expect Frank Reich 552 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 1: to try and fix and help Carson Wentz. He's gonna 553 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,120 Speaker 1: take him back to his fundamentals. I mean Carson Wentz, really, 554 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,000 Speaker 1: he's been all over the place. He's been like a 555 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,440 Speaker 1: wagon with a broken wheel. I mean, he's been all 556 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,080 Speaker 1: over the place lately. Reich will get him back to 557 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 1: his basics and then he will start to run some 558 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 1: things that he can run. Now. This kid is still 559 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:52,320 Speaker 1: he's a very good athlete. The knee injury slowed him 560 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:55,520 Speaker 1: down some, but I think just his comfortable zone coming 561 00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,920 Speaker 1: back with Frank Reich getting away from the drama that 562 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,160 Speaker 1: was Philadelphia and it was drama field. But he will 563 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,720 Speaker 1: take him back to his basics. That's what we'll see 564 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,520 Speaker 1: early on, and we're gonna see them early on October 565 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:11,080 Speaker 1: third at the New York Jets, noons start. Titans haven't 566 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 1: played the Jets at MetLife Stadium since December twenty fifteen, 567 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:20,520 Speaker 1: when Ryan Fitzpatrick through three touchdown passes. This is a 568 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,080 Speaker 1: lot of Fitzpatrick in him. He's played for over half 569 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,360 Speaker 1: the teams in the league he has. He's the Bobby 570 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:29,240 Speaker 1: Bonds of the NFL three touchdown passes for the Jets. 571 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,360 Speaker 1: Jets won the game thirty to eight. The Titans only 572 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 1: touchdown on a trick play. Titans gonna snap it directly 573 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:40,560 Speaker 1: to Andrews. Andrews running around right end. Now he looks 574 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:44,920 Speaker 1: to throw down field. There's Mariota fifteen ten five and 575 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 1: zone touchdown. Titans Antonio Andrews forty one yard touchdown pass 576 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:54,560 Speaker 1: to Marcus Mariota. That was the only highlight in an 577 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:58,520 Speaker 1: awful day. It was a really, really unfortunate day in 578 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,320 Speaker 1: a tough season, Marcus's rookie year, and we're all thinking, man, 579 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,040 Speaker 1: this guy can do everything, can do it. That's also 580 00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 1: the same game where Darrell Casey chased the guy down 581 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,680 Speaker 1: on the busted play. Yes he did, where nobody else 582 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,520 Speaker 1: went after him because of the snap and and he 583 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,840 Speaker 1: chased the guy, I mean ran fifty yard sidelines. Yeah, 584 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,160 Speaker 1: he sure did. He went into the locker room right 585 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 1: after that play looking for a peanut butter sandwich because 586 00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,480 Speaker 1: he said he had used all his energy. There's there's 587 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:28,400 Speaker 1: the story from Amy Wells. Perfect. That's why we love 588 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:31,080 Speaker 1: Jarell Casey. Lots of snack story. That's why We Love 589 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:35,960 Speaker 1: Amy Wills. October tenth at Jacksonville Noon. Titans won at 590 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:39,640 Speaker 1: Jacksonville thirty one ten last December. This was a blowout. 591 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,240 Speaker 1: Titans had three hundred eighty two total yards and a 592 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,600 Speaker 1: twenty eight point lead with eight forty eight to go 593 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:49,200 Speaker 1: in the third quarter, largely behind Derek Henry's two hundred 594 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,720 Speaker 1: and fifteen rushing yards. Ryan Tannehill A J. Brown also 595 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:57,800 Speaker 1: good Jeff Henry pitchback. Tannehill throw right side going for 596 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 1: Brown in the ends of one hand touchdown like maha, man, oh, 597 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:09,719 Speaker 1: that's crazy. Arthur one return to sender and the Titans 598 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,840 Speaker 1: return to the Jaguar's end zone. Coach Mack would be 599 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 1: the first time to see Trevor Lawrence. What are you expecting? 600 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:18,600 Speaker 1: It's gonna be very interesting. This is going to be 601 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,320 Speaker 1: very interesting. This kid's a talent and they're going to 602 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,799 Speaker 1: completely revamp what they're going to do down there. I mean, 603 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,279 Speaker 1: he may he may be you know who, knows who 604 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,480 Speaker 1: he's thrown to a tight end. I mean it could 605 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,400 Speaker 1: be you know who. But anyway, the things that are 606 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,000 Speaker 1: going on with him, this is going to be This 607 00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:35,840 Speaker 1: guy is going to be a really good quarterback in 608 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:37,920 Speaker 1: this league. I just hope we make him not a 609 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,120 Speaker 1: really good quarterback early in his career. What do you 610 00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,440 Speaker 1: think of the Tebow thing at tight end after being 611 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,320 Speaker 1: out of football eight years, Well, it wouldn't happen anywhere 612 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,000 Speaker 1: other than with Urban Meyer. First of all, there's nobody 613 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:51,120 Speaker 1: clamoring to get Tim Tebow on their ninety man roster. 614 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,439 Speaker 1: But it you know, it's interesting to me. They're gonna 615 00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,160 Speaker 1: have enough drama going on down there anyway. I mean, 616 00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:00,480 Speaker 1: this really is basically just adding another ball to the 617 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,120 Speaker 1: circus because of what's gonna go on down there. I'll 618 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,120 Speaker 1: tell you one thing, Mike, and I'm serious about this. 619 00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,719 Speaker 1: We don't know yet how the practice squad rules are 620 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:09,680 Speaker 1: going to be, But if there's gonna be sixteen and 621 00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,120 Speaker 1: they're gonna have that veteran exemption, he may be a 622 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,319 Speaker 1: practice squad player. I could see that. Interesting. That's one 623 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 1: of the two best catches in A. J. Brown's career 624 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,200 Speaker 1: right there, that one hender and then the one he 625 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,400 Speaker 1: made on the one yard line in between two defenders 626 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,200 Speaker 1: in the end of the twenty nineteen season in Houston. 627 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,640 Speaker 1: Remember that one, Yes, Sir, October eighteenth, Monday Night Football 628 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:32,200 Speaker 1: Buffalo's back in town. Last year in October, the Titans 629 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,680 Speaker 1: beat the undefeated Bills forty two to sixteen on Tuesday 630 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:40,120 Speaker 1: Night football with no practices over sixteen days due to 631 00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:44,000 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen eight players and coaches out with COVID. It 632 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:47,200 Speaker 1: was a night for the Titans defense, especially Malcolm Butler. 633 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:52,120 Speaker 1: Alan firing Gunfield intercepted Butler at the twenty Butler thirty 634 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,600 Speaker 1: scudder step thirty five. Beasley is gonna get him down? 635 00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:57,640 Speaker 1: Or does he know he gets away? He's back to 636 00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:02,799 Speaker 1: the forty forty five fifty thirty five thirty cut back 637 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:06,960 Speaker 1: twenty five twenty fifteen. Did Alan finally tackles him inside 638 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:12,560 Speaker 1: the fifteen? The Butler did it? What a mood Malcolm 639 00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:18,520 Speaker 1: Butler with the I NT had another fabulous return, had 640 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:22,520 Speaker 1: that Titans are in business. Dave McGinnis, you thought this 641 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,719 Speaker 1: was one of the most impressive coaching jobs you had 642 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,360 Speaker 1: ever seen. It really was, And I said it at 643 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,239 Speaker 1: the time. First of all, let me just say how 644 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,279 Speaker 1: fired up I get listening. Do you call those things? 645 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,839 Speaker 1: Thank you? I mean, that is just outstanding. I mean, 646 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,960 Speaker 1: really that's good stuff. Mike but talking about that, and 647 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,040 Speaker 1: I talked about it during the broadcast. Look, they didn't 648 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,600 Speaker 1: have any practice at all. They had three walkthroughs in 649 00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,080 Speaker 1: sixteen days, and plus that was the time when they 650 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:49,200 Speaker 1: were catching all the business from you know, some pundits 651 00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:51,319 Speaker 1: in the league that I won't mention their name because 652 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,360 Speaker 1: they don't deserve it, you know, saying about you know 653 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,439 Speaker 1: what the Titans did wrong, Well, they did nothing wrong. 654 00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,040 Speaker 1: They just they just were in covid. But to be 655 00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,800 Speaker 1: able to do what Mike very about his staff and 656 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:05,319 Speaker 1: his team in a sixteen day period with three walkthroughs 657 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:08,359 Speaker 1: and then be able to demolish a playoff worthy team 658 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:10,880 Speaker 1: at home, that was one of the best coaching jobs 659 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,400 Speaker 1: and also one of the best jobs by a football 660 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:17,120 Speaker 1: organization that I that I witnessed all of last year. 661 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:20,720 Speaker 1: October the twenty fourth, Kansas City will be in town, 662 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,799 Speaker 1: six days after the Buffalo game. The Chiefs were here 663 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:27,359 Speaker 1: two years ago. They would go undefeated. After that visit 664 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,759 Speaker 1: to Nashville. They would win the Super Bowl butt on 665 00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,239 Speaker 1: November tenth, twenty nineteen. It was a well, it was 666 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:38,520 Speaker 1: an ending that belonged to the Titans. Tannahill looking looking firing. 667 00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,160 Speaker 1: I would have been at huff Priest five Huff Pries 668 00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:47,400 Speaker 1: and so out touch five Titans, touchdaf Typens toutdaff Titans. 669 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:52,439 Speaker 1: Adam Huff Priest twenty three yards had the Titans lead 670 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:57,480 Speaker 1: thirty three to thirty two with twenty three ticks in 671 00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:03,279 Speaker 1: a mad set set fluck it's been picked up by 672 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:12,320 Speaker 1: samps its fluck buck Kaloo, Joshua Kalo, Joshua Kaloo. Guys, 673 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,120 Speaker 1: I'm having a hard time catching my breath. If anybody 674 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:18,640 Speaker 1: so fired up? That game was such a huge moment 675 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,319 Speaker 1: for the Tennessee Titans, who was right before a bye, 676 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,879 Speaker 1: so we walked into basically just two weeks of being 677 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,319 Speaker 1: on top of the world. It had to win that game. 678 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,279 Speaker 1: We had to win that game. Had to win that 679 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,080 Speaker 1: game without a doubt because the team had to go 680 00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,479 Speaker 1: into the bye with some a minium. Didn't you chase 681 00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,440 Speaker 1: Joshua Kaloo after it was over on the sidelines? Did 682 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,320 Speaker 1: chase Joshua kaloue? We're going through these in the amount 683 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,200 Speaker 1: of miles that I've run at the end of some 684 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,920 Speaker 1: of these games, unbelievable, But yes, chased him down because 685 00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:50,759 Speaker 1: the entire team was mobbing this guy. I'm pretty sure 686 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,239 Speaker 1: he ended up at the bottom of a pilot at 687 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:55,600 Speaker 1: some point. There was a lot going on, But yeah, 688 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,000 Speaker 1: talk to him right after the game. We talked to 689 00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:00,640 Speaker 1: him later that week before everybody got out of town 690 00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,279 Speaker 1: for the bye. He was so fired up. He felt 691 00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:04,840 Speaker 1: like that kind of put him on the map a 692 00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,120 Speaker 1: little bit in terms of solidifying what he was able 693 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,000 Speaker 1: to do on special teams, how he was able to 694 00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:12,120 Speaker 1: contribute to the team. But man, the way it kind 695 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,320 Speaker 1: of established that the Tennessee Titans were here and we 696 00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:17,439 Speaker 1: weren't messing around. In twenty nineteen, Oh, it still gives 697 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:22,520 Speaker 1: me goosebumps. Halloween at Indianapolis. It's a noonstart. Titans have 698 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,920 Speaker 1: won two in a row at Indianapolis in twenty nineteen. 699 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:29,560 Speaker 1: It took another block field goal to do it. Snap 700 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:36,000 Speaker 1: said kick flock Ki Smith has it fifty forty thirty 701 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:44,279 Speaker 1: twenty ten five. It's a touchdown. Titans tie Smith to 702 00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:48,279 Speaker 1: the house. Oh my, last year it was an offensive 703 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:52,920 Speaker 1: onslot in Indianapolis. Tennessee scored thirty five points in the 704 00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:57,440 Speaker 1: first half. Tannehill in the shotgun moves Henry to his right, 705 00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:04,600 Speaker 1: Hill Henry on the left side. No tell yea far 706 00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:10,800 Speaker 1: roll touchdown. Titans Oh he faked me. He got me 707 00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:16,319 Speaker 1: better yet he got the Colts coach Mack How big 708 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:18,840 Speaker 1: is it for the Titans as they'll go into October 709 00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,400 Speaker 1: thirty first in Indianapolis having won their two years in 710 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:23,880 Speaker 1: a row. Well, it's huge. You've got to you've got 711 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:25,719 Speaker 1: to keep that up. And you know, we always say 712 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,359 Speaker 1: in the National Football League, you win a division game 713 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:30,640 Speaker 1: on the road, it's like two wins, it really is. 714 00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:32,800 Speaker 1: And you go into that place, which has been a 715 00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:34,880 Speaker 1: little bit of a problem in the past for the 716 00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:37,359 Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. But to be able to be on that role, 717 00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:39,399 Speaker 1: go in there and beat those people at their place, 718 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,320 Speaker 1: it's very, very important and it's gonna be big this 719 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:46,120 Speaker 1: year too. November seventh at Los Angeles to play the 720 00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:50,040 Speaker 1: Rams at SOFI Stadium seven twenty Sunday Night Football. These 721 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:53,960 Speaker 1: two teams met in Nashville and twenty seveneam Rams won 722 00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,040 Speaker 1: the game, but Darrell Casey made one of the best 723 00:40:56,080 --> 00:41:01,040 Speaker 1: plays of his entire careerf pet fumble picked up wood 724 00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:09,320 Speaker 1: yard touch down. Titans. Oh my goodness, Casey quit rabbick 725 00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:14,600 Speaker 1: through there, golf knocked loosing the ball at wood Yard 726 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:19,080 Speaker 1: has a big six. November fourteenth, New Orleans comes to 727 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:23,880 Speaker 1: Nissan Stadium. The Saints were in Nashville in twenty nineteen. 728 00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,879 Speaker 1: They beat the Titans in Week sixteen on a day 729 00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:30,080 Speaker 1: that Derrick Henry and four other starters did not play, 730 00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:33,680 Speaker 1: as the game didn't matter to the Titans playoff chances. 731 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,959 Speaker 1: Yet Tennessee was in a position to win the game 732 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:42,000 Speaker 1: when this controversial play happened. Tannehill looking firing, gets caught 733 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:46,840 Speaker 1: Kalif Raymond. Raymond lost the ball, it came out Garner 734 00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:51,120 Speaker 1: Johnson has it fifty forty thirty. Garner Johnson at the 735 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,759 Speaker 1: twenty five and down callif Raymond is still down, he 736 00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,440 Speaker 1: laid him out. And for that hit, Rhett Bryan a 737 00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:02,120 Speaker 1: twenty eight thousand dollars fine, but no penalty on the 738 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,560 Speaker 1: play had it been called, would have been huge and 739 00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:09,000 Speaker 1: absolutely would have And twenty eight grand on a rookie salary. 740 00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,800 Speaker 1: That's that's a little hit in the pocket there for 741 00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:16,000 Speaker 1: Johncey Gardner Johnson. I think the interesting thing in this is, 742 00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:19,360 Speaker 1: you know what this is gonna be like without Drew Brees. 743 00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,879 Speaker 1: It's gonna be you know, Taysom Hill, and it's gonna 744 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:26,439 Speaker 1: be Jameis Winston who we've seen before, a different look 745 00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,480 Speaker 1: in this thing and wasn't able to add much in 746 00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,040 Speaker 1: free agency because up against the cap, lost a lot 747 00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,239 Speaker 1: of folks in free agency because of that same reason. 748 00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:36,839 Speaker 1: Don't get me started on the officials this early. That's 749 00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:38,440 Speaker 1: why we brought this up. We wanted to hear you 750 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,640 Speaker 1: talk about this. I mean, and again, I know who 751 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,560 Speaker 1: it was. I won't mention his name, but that that 752 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,640 Speaker 1: was targeting. The reason targeting was put in to the 753 00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:48,920 Speaker 1: rule book. It was targeting all the way. I mean, 754 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:50,520 Speaker 1: he laid it out. It would have made a difference 755 00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:52,360 Speaker 1: in the game, but more than that, it meant it 756 00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:55,279 Speaker 1: meant a difference to the player. It really did, and 757 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:59,399 Speaker 1: Calif Raymond did not play again until the Baltimore playoff game. 758 00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,160 Speaker 1: And that's that's my point. Mike made a big difference. 759 00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:04,480 Speaker 1: So don't get me started on that right now, please. Well, 760 00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:06,560 Speaker 1: and Rhet made the point that we don't know what 761 00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:09,239 Speaker 1: New Orleans is going to look like this year with 762 00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,320 Speaker 1: a lot of different changes. We do know what the 763 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,600 Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans are going to look like this year with 764 00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,400 Speaker 1: some of their starters, including Derrick Henry who did not 765 00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:19,120 Speaker 1: play in this game. Who will be playing in this game. 766 00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,239 Speaker 1: That should make Tennessee Titans fans peeled pretty good, because 767 00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:24,759 Speaker 1: anytime Derrick Henry's on the field, you stand a chance. 768 00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:26,880 Speaker 1: Let me say one thing before we leave this. Okay, 769 00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:28,920 Speaker 1: you know I talked to Mike Vrabel about and I've 770 00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:31,600 Speaker 1: talked to you guys about how he manages his team. 771 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:33,880 Speaker 1: He's got a great feel for him. That was a 772 00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:37,040 Speaker 1: brilliant move not to play some of those guys because 773 00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,040 Speaker 1: the game and the standings was inconsequential. But we needed 774 00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:42,279 Speaker 1: those guys down the stretch. That's part of being a 775 00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,439 Speaker 1: head coach. Ready to win at Houston the next week, 776 00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:48,280 Speaker 1: and they did. November twenty first, Houston is the opponent 777 00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:51,440 Speaker 1: at Nissan Stadium. The Titans rallied to beat the Texans 778 00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:53,759 Speaker 1: in overtime last year to go to five and zero. 779 00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:57,680 Speaker 1: How about a little Kingcat memory, Tannehill is, why did 780 00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:01,080 Speaker 1: the laugh? Henry is in the gun. It's the King 781 00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:06,959 Speaker 1: Cat Henry running to the left end. He cuts down Pike. 782 00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:16,879 Speaker 1: Now yo two cut thirty six. That's Arthur Smith. Talk 783 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:21,719 Speaker 1: with Nick King for the final five yards and the 784 00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:26,960 Speaker 1: Big three coach Mack. They did that five days after 785 00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:31,080 Speaker 1: that Buffalo game. And they had had exactly one practice 786 00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:34,560 Speaker 1: and a couple walkthroughs after Buffalo to get ready to 787 00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,520 Speaker 1: free Houston. Well, these are these are very salient reasons 788 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:41,080 Speaker 1: why I asked Mike Rabel about altered schedule. He's been 789 00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:44,399 Speaker 1: a master at handling these altered schedules and coming out 790 00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:46,200 Speaker 1: on the top. And that's what that's what a good 791 00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:49,120 Speaker 1: head coach does. This was another beautiful example of it. 792 00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:52,080 Speaker 1: And uh, there's a beautiful example of you bring the 793 00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:55,120 Speaker 1: king cat out. November twenty eighth at New England. We 794 00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:58,319 Speaker 1: all remember Tennessee's last game in New England, the two 795 00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:01,640 Speaker 1: thousand nineteen playoffs, and the end of Tom Brady as 796 00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:06,000 Speaker 1: a Patriot. Brady in the end zone takes the snap, 797 00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:10,680 Speaker 1: looks fires passed, batted up at the air, intercepted, and 798 00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:16,920 Speaker 1: return for a touchdown Titans Logan Ryan with nine seconds 799 00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:21,719 Speaker 1: to go. That looked big at the time. But after 800 00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:25,600 Speaker 1: Tampa Bay wins the Super Bowl last year and Brady 801 00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:28,640 Speaker 1: proves that he's not washed up with a nood alarm, 802 00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:33,400 Speaker 1: He's still Tom Brady, I think this win looks even bigger. Absolutely. 803 00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:35,839 Speaker 1: I think that at the time we were all saying, well, 804 00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:39,600 Speaker 1: Tom Brady's done. It's over. He's old noodle arm is 805 00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:41,799 Speaker 1: pretty good. But that was what we were saying at 806 00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,600 Speaker 1: the time. That's what they were saying. Yeah. Now seeing 807 00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:48,480 Speaker 1: how dominant Tom Brady is still able to be, what 808 00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,239 Speaker 1: he is still able to accomplish, that shows what the 809 00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,000 Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans are also able to do. They're able to 810 00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:57,759 Speaker 1: beat Tom Brady, who has not lost a step. After all, 811 00:45:58,040 --> 00:45:59,880 Speaker 1: he just got beat by a good team in the 812 00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:03,040 Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans in twenty nineteen, and conversely, the Patriots in 813 00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:06,000 Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven to nine Can Newton on a cheap 814 00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:08,280 Speaker 1: one year deal as their quarterback. They spent one hundred 815 00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:11,080 Speaker 1: and sixty million dollars in the first wave of free 816 00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:14,919 Speaker 1: agency this year, a record to try to rebolster that roster. 817 00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:17,880 Speaker 1: So we get to December fifth, that's a bye. Titans 818 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:22,080 Speaker 1: also had a week thirteen by in twenty sixteen. December 819 00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:27,440 Speaker 1: the twelfth, Jacksonville at home, December the nineteenth at Pittsburgh. 820 00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:31,240 Speaker 1: These two teams played at Nissan Stadium last year. Titans 821 00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:33,640 Speaker 1: were five and zero. It was their first loss of 822 00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:37,240 Speaker 1: the season. They fell behind twenty four to seven at halftime, 823 00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:40,440 Speaker 1: but they rallied and had a chance in the final seconds. 824 00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:44,760 Speaker 1: It'll be a forty five yard or nineteen seconds remaining. 825 00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:50,959 Speaker 1: Gaskowski trying to not the count snap kick on the way, 826 00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:56,319 Speaker 1: No good, hell God, he missed it wide to the right, 827 00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,480 Speaker 1: and that continues to be a question for the Titans. 828 00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:03,839 Speaker 1: Coach Day McGinnis. The Titans kicking situation something that they 829 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,879 Speaker 1: are looking to get solved and have some more stability 830 00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:10,319 Speaker 1: entering twenty twenty one. Well, they absolutely are, and they're 831 00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:12,360 Speaker 1: gonna have They're gonna have some competition you know, in 832 00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:15,239 Speaker 1: training camp, and that's extremely important now, you know. You know, 833 00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,960 Speaker 1: to Goskowski's credit, he came back from that and had 834 00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:20,279 Speaker 1: and had some big kicks you know, later on. But 835 00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:22,520 Speaker 1: at the time and then even now where we're saying 836 00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:25,839 Speaker 1: the kicking situation is unsettled, But we've got a lot 837 00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:28,200 Speaker 1: of time for it to get settled. And that's what's 838 00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:31,839 Speaker 1: gonna happen. December twenty third, Thursday Night football, Titans host 839 00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:35,439 Speaker 1: San Francisco at seven to fifteen. Then, after a mini 840 00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:39,839 Speaker 1: by the Titans host Miami on January second. Last time 841 00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,480 Speaker 1: Miami was in Nashville, they were playing their first game 842 00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:46,440 Speaker 1: under interim coach Dan Campbell. Who is now the head 843 00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:50,200 Speaker 1: coach in Detroit and they actually whipped Tennessee thirty eight 844 00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:53,080 Speaker 1: to ten. You may remember this guy playing at quarterback, 845 00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:57,719 Speaker 1: third down at eight Dolphins at the Titans twelve yard line. 846 00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:01,760 Speaker 1: Tannehill in the shotgun. He's gonna throw it. Tannehill fires 847 00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:05,440 Speaker 1: into the end zone and it's a touchdown Miami Dolphins 848 00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:10,239 Speaker 1: as it's caught by Jordan Cameron. So he ended that game, 849 00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:14,239 Speaker 1: did Tannehill, completing his final seven passes. The next week 850 00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:18,360 Speaker 1: against Houston, he hit his first eighteen passes, the twenty 851 00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:21,640 Speaker 1: five in a row over two games, a record. But Amy, 852 00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:25,799 Speaker 1: who'd have thought when we saw Ryan Tannehill that day 853 00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:29,319 Speaker 1: playing against the Titans, in a day where he threw 854 00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:33,719 Speaker 1: for two sixty six two touchdowns, had two interceptions, who 855 00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:37,960 Speaker 1: would have thought he would be so important to our franchise? Now? Absolutely, 856 00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:41,160 Speaker 1: he was not just the opponent. Now he is our guy. 857 00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:44,680 Speaker 1: And he has found himself in a system that I 858 00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:49,120 Speaker 1: think everyone in the world would say suits him so well. 859 00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:53,800 Speaker 1: He has had such dominant performances and some astronomical numbers 860 00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:56,880 Speaker 1: in the time that he has been the starting quarterback 861 00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:59,200 Speaker 1: for the Tennessee Titans. So yeah, we see him in 862 00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:02,279 Speaker 1: Miami and he has, you know, a decently good day. 863 00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:04,799 Speaker 1: But then he ends up a couple of short years 864 00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:09,480 Speaker 1: later in Tennessee having remarkable days. January the ninth at 865 00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:14,600 Speaker 1: Houston noon, the Titans ended the twenty twenty season at Houston, 866 00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:19,759 Speaker 1: and that was pretty exciting. Tannehill looking rolling to his right, 867 00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:26,600 Speaker 1: throwing man is there? It's Brown? Touch Dad, Titan. Tannehill 868 00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,960 Speaker 1: with just a little dash to the right, and there 869 00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:34,520 Speaker 1: came Brown right on time, right hash thirty seven yards 870 00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:38,680 Speaker 1: to one. It snap, said Sloman's kick us up. His 871 00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:45,680 Speaker 1: kick hits the upright, it goes through. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, 872 00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:51,200 Speaker 1: great job Sloman bank shot. Chris Sloman and the twenty 873 00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:58,000 Speaker 1: twenty AFC South Chipkins reside in the six one five 874 00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:04,040 Speaker 1: working hard in the Titans ticket office on schedule day. 875 00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:06,680 Speaker 1: Fans excited want to know how they can see the 876 00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:10,000 Speaker 1: Titans play in twenty twenty. We've got the man, the 877 00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,920 Speaker 1: director of ticket sales, Jim Rice. Jim, thanks so much 878 00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:16,000 Speaker 1: for joining us, Mike, appreciate you having me on. All right, 879 00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:19,360 Speaker 1: so we're coming out of the pandemic. We know it 880 00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:23,239 Speaker 1: was limited capacity during twenty twenty. What message would you 881 00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:26,239 Speaker 1: say to fans wondering about what this season is going 882 00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:28,680 Speaker 1: to look like with this great schedule, Yeah, I think 883 00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:30,960 Speaker 1: it's that football's back. You know, we're all excited. The 884 00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:33,919 Speaker 1: commissioner came out, Mark Cooper came out a couple weeks ago, 885 00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:37,040 Speaker 1: you know, and their expectations are that the league in 886 00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:39,040 Speaker 1: the city will be at one hundred percent capacity. So 887 00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:41,600 Speaker 1: you know, that's what we're planning for. That's what will 888 00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:44,840 Speaker 1: remain hopeful for at this point. You know. Obviously, the 889 00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:48,080 Speaker 1: safety of our fans, players, staff will be our main priority, 890 00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:50,840 Speaker 1: just like it wasn't twenty twenty, and we'll continue to 891 00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:52,640 Speaker 1: work with the league, the merit in the local health 892 00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:55,080 Speaker 1: department on whatever protocols and guidelines we have to follow. 893 00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:57,080 Speaker 1: But like I said, we're excited looking forward to it. 894 00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:00,720 Speaker 1: Titans implementing and trying new things that need sign stadium 895 00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,360 Speaker 1: for twenty twenty one. What can fans expect over the 896 00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:07,360 Speaker 1: next several months. Yeah, I mean our goal obviously is 897 00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:09,799 Speaker 1: the filled Nissan Stadium with Titans fans in twenty twenty 898 00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:11,520 Speaker 1: one and make sure they have the best game day 899 00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:14,520 Speaker 1: experience possible. And so we're offering a ton of new 900 00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:18,200 Speaker 1: packages this year we've got a two game, Flex, three game, Flex, 901 00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:21,120 Speaker 1: five game. We've got a fireball that's that's somewhat like 902 00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:24,800 Speaker 1: a season ticket package, but it's a little more affordable option. 903 00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:26,840 Speaker 1: They don't necessarily get the same seat every game, so 904 00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:29,359 Speaker 1: that's unique. We're working on a few of the things 905 00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,680 Speaker 1: that you know about that I've reached out to get 906 00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:33,719 Speaker 1: your help on, and so I think the state of 907 00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:36,719 Speaker 1: Tennessee and our fans will will eat that up. And 908 00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:38,279 Speaker 1: then as far as you know, once they get here, 909 00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,960 Speaker 1: we're going cash list, we're going smoke free, we're going 910 00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:43,880 Speaker 1: all mobile, and we're even going to step up our 911 00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:46,520 Speaker 1: concessions in game day entertainment for him, What are you 912 00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:49,680 Speaker 1: in the Titans organization most excited about for the twenty 913 00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,800 Speaker 1: twenty one season. Jim, Yeah, I mean, I think you 914 00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:54,160 Speaker 1: know as well as I do. We got into this 915 00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:56,799 Speaker 1: industry for the love of sports. In twenty twenty kind 916 00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:59,439 Speaker 1: of showed us, you know, how much we took things 917 00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:02,040 Speaker 1: for granted, and so we realized, you know, how much 918 00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:04,240 Speaker 1: we miss our fans and miss having the stadium packed, 919 00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:06,440 Speaker 1: and so that's what we're we're most looking forward to 920 00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:09,840 Speaker 1: is having a packed house, being able to have games 921 00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:13,120 Speaker 1: with you know, sixty nine thousand of our favorite people 922 00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:15,239 Speaker 1: and then getting back to doing some of our events too. 923 00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:17,400 Speaker 1: So you know, in twenty twenty, down only did we 924 00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:19,479 Speaker 1: not have a full capacity, but we missed on season 925 00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:21,919 Speaker 1: ticket our events, events like the five K Learning Lab, 926 00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:24,359 Speaker 1: Girl Scouts. So plan is to bring all that back. 927 00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:26,920 Speaker 1: So we're pumped and looking forward to it. Six one 928 00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:30,160 Speaker 1: five five six five forty two hundred six one five 929 00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:33,759 Speaker 1: five six five forty two hundred email ticket sales at 930 00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:37,759 Speaker 1: Titans dot NFL dot com. Ticket sales at Titans dot 931 00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:40,640 Speaker 1: NFL dot com. I know you guys are working hard 932 00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:42,880 Speaker 1: over there. Appreciate what you do. Jim Rice, thanks for 933 00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:45,879 Speaker 1: taking time. Appreciate it. Mike, take care. That's good man 934 00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:48,279 Speaker 1: right there in Jim Rice, the director of ticket sales 935 00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:51,319 Speaker 1: for the Titans. Let's run through the schedule one more 936 00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:55,760 Speaker 1: time for the Titans. They open September the twelfth against 937 00:52:55,880 --> 00:53:00,560 Speaker 1: Arizona at noon at Seattle September nineteenth three, twenty five, 938 00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:05,759 Speaker 1: September twenty sixth, Indianapolis at noon October third, at the 939 00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:10,040 Speaker 1: New York Jets at noon October tenth, at Jacksonville at 940 00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:15,200 Speaker 1: noon October the eighteenth, Monday Night Football Buffalo seven to 941 00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:18,919 Speaker 1: fifteen That is at Nissan Stadium, October the twenty fifth, 942 00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:22,920 Speaker 1: home for Kansas City at noon October thirty feet at 943 00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:27,520 Speaker 1: Indianapolis at noon. November seventh, at the Los Angeles Rams 944 00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:31,640 Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football seven twenty kick November fourteenth, New Orleans 945 00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:36,320 Speaker 1: at noon. November twenty first, Houston at noon, November the 946 00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:40,719 Speaker 1: twenty eighth, at New England at noon. December fifth, a 947 00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:47,480 Speaker 1: bye December twelfth, Jacksonville at noon December nineteenth, at Pittsburgh 948 00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:52,960 Speaker 1: at noon Thursday, December twenty third, San Francisco at Nissan Stadium, 949 00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:58,240 Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football seven to fifteen pm, January second, Miami 950 00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:02,719 Speaker 1: at noon January nine, at Houston at noon. That will 951 00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:04,960 Speaker 1: end it, and we will remind you that the Titans 952 00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:10,960 Speaker 1: preseason games August the thirteenth at Atlanta, August the twenty 953 00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:15,719 Speaker 1: first at Tampa Bay, August the twenty eighth, Chicago at home, 954 00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:21,040 Speaker 1: so just three preseason games. Amy Wells final thoughts about 955 00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:24,800 Speaker 1: the schedule, Mike, I am ready for some Tennessee Titans football. 956 00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:27,600 Speaker 1: I'm so excited for the schedule. I think it's going 957 00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:29,760 Speaker 1: to be balanced. I think it's going to be exciting 958 00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:32,920 Speaker 1: and these home games are no joke. We're going to 959 00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:35,080 Speaker 1: have so much fun at Nissan Stadium this year. So 960 00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:37,440 Speaker 1: if you don't have season tickets yet, do the right thing, 961 00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:40,719 Speaker 1: make the call, get online, get your tickets, because you're 962 00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:43,520 Speaker 1: not gonna want to miss a minute of Titans action 963 00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:45,839 Speaker 1: this year. Yeah. Now, I'll pig you back off of Amy. 964 00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:48,239 Speaker 1: The fans at Nissan Stadium make it go. I mean, 965 00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:50,920 Speaker 1: it's it's energy. We experienced it last year without fans 966 00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:53,960 Speaker 1: all across the National Football League. Fans are the juice 967 00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:56,520 Speaker 1: for what goes on and so really looking forward to this, 968 00:54:56,680 --> 00:55:00,239 Speaker 1: really enjoy talking with coach Rabel getting his stall. You 969 00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:03,120 Speaker 1: can hear the excitement in his voice. I'm looking forward 970 00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:04,840 Speaker 1: to it. I'm looking forward to getting out there and 971 00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:07,400 Speaker 1: watching these new guys get on the grass and seeing 972 00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:10,040 Speaker 1: what we have. This is an exciting time. The NFL 973 00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:14,800 Speaker 1: is cranking up again quickly. Arizona as an opener, extra tougher, No, 974 00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:17,080 Speaker 1: you know, I think it's tough. They got some physical 975 00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:19,680 Speaker 1: they got skilled people, they got skilled people. On offense, 976 00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:22,200 Speaker 1: You've got an off schedule quarterback. You play two off 977 00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:25,360 Speaker 1: schedule quarterbacks in a row. You know, with Arizona and 978 00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:28,600 Speaker 1: then go right into the off schedule master in Russell Wilson, 979 00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:32,440 Speaker 1: So they've got skill. It'll be a challenge and the cadence. 980 00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:35,279 Speaker 1: I like the double homes, double aways from week four 981 00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:38,160 Speaker 1: to ten because, as we've said for the last hour 982 00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:41,759 Speaker 1: and change, if you can get to week twelve, where 983 00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:45,000 Speaker 1: the buy is and a halfway decent health and a 984 00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:48,520 Speaker 1: halfway decent record, then you've got that final push towards 985 00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:53,040 Speaker 1: the postseason. The Titans open up with three games in September, 986 00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:56,319 Speaker 1: excited to have two of those at home, and then 987 00:55:56,440 --> 00:55:59,880 Speaker 1: October and November big challenges. Amy, Yep, it's going to 988 00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:01,920 Speaker 1: be a tough stretch. But if you can get to 989 00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:04,960 Speaker 1: the other side of October and have a couple of 990 00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:08,160 Speaker 1: wins strung together, you're in kind of a good space 991 00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:10,600 Speaker 1: for the second half of that season. The Titans will 992 00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:13,839 Speaker 1: also face the Indianapolis Colts in Week three and then 993 00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:16,640 Speaker 1: again in week eight, and so the Titans are done 994 00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:19,360 Speaker 1: with the Colts in one of the stick out features 995 00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:24,400 Speaker 1: of this schedule. By Halloween no longer the September game 996 00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:27,960 Speaker 1: and then the December game as it was seemingly every 997 00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:31,440 Speaker 1: year since the beginning of time, six one five five 998 00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:35,440 Speaker 1: six five forty two hundred called the ticket office email 999 00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:39,919 Speaker 1: Ticket Sales at Titans dot NFL dot com. It is here. 1000 00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:44,400 Speaker 1: We've got the schedule tighten up. That'll do it for 1001 00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:48,640 Speaker 1: the Official Titans Podcast. A special thanks to our friends 1002 00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:51,480 Speaker 1: at one oh four five The Zone, and of course 1003 00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:55,760 Speaker 1: our sponsor, Farm Bureau Health Plans. Turn to the folks 1004 00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:58,919 Speaker 1: who've been in the game since nineteen forty seven. 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